I can't say I agree with that assessment. I find Lion to be a pleasure to use. Apple seems to have taken the approach that everything in the OS had to justify its existence; things were not done in a particular way merely because they had always been done that way. I find the interface features useful and the numerous other improvements behind the scenes, such as memory management and security enhancements, make things easier without any change required by the user.
I am looking forward with anticipation to some of the improvements in Mountain Lion. Some appear to have been left out of Lion merely because the developers ran out of time before the release date. Take Air Play Mirroring. A friend of mine has only an iPhone and a MacBook Air. I demoed my Apple TV for him showing Air Play Mirroring with an iPad -- but unfortunately I could not at the time recommend that he buy an Apple TV because mirroring was not then available on OS X. It soon will be. Also it will be possible to send text messages (SMS style) from your computer to any iPhone user, or receive text messages from iPhone users on your computer. That is a feature that I have actively sought, looking at third party software for the purpose. More to have a record of the text messages than for any other reason. Phone companies must be cursing the new unified Messaging app in Mountain Lion. Lion also introduced iCloud which is a revelation. I actually as I was typing this received a call asking for a phone number that I had entered an hour ago on my iPhone. I brought up Address Book and there it was! I have many more Lion features I would like to mention but some programming work beckons. :-) Cheers, Carlo On 17/02/2012, at 11:19 , Michael Hawkins wrote: > Lion is a pain in the butt to use. > > I hope that Mountain Lion isn't a more powerful pain. > > Michael Hawkins. > > > On 17/02/2012, at 10:54 AM, Alexander Hartner wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> Might want to take a look at this : www.addressbookserver.com >> >> Alex >> >> On 16/02/2012, at 22:29 , Daniel Kerr wrote: >> >>> One thing I'd like to see them "fix" in Lion/Mountain Lion/iCloud is >>> Address Book syncing. >>> When you synced via iTunes with Address Book, you had the ability to choose >>> "Groups" that would sync, and not just sync everything. >>> >>> What this meant was that a couple could use 1 iMac computer, have the same >>> address book but with all the contacts in one. They could then have a Group >>> for person A and a group for Person B. Then when you synced via iTunes >>> Person A would get just their group, and Person Bwould get just their group. >>> eg, Wife gets her contacts, Husband gets his. And then if they wanted a >>> combined "group" eg Medical, Household etc. >>> >>> Now it's all or nothing. >>> >>> Mind you , I must admit I haven't looked into further if there is a >>> workaround,... >>> >>> You can have this feature if you USB sync with iTunes, but not with iCloud >>> sync. So yeh,...strange. lol. :) >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Daniel >>> --- >>> Daniel Kerr >>> MacWizardry >>> >>> Phone: 0414 795 960 >>> Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> >>> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >>> >>> >>> **For everything Macintosh** >>> >>> On 16/02/2012, at 10:18 PM, cm wrote: >>> >>>> Things are ramping up at Apple! (sorry) >>>> >>>> Mountain Lion has at least one feature I was hoping for, and that is >>>> syncing with iCloud from OS X. Now changes in Numbers and Pages documents >>>> will be pushed to iOS iCloud documents. I am also waiting keenly for a Mac >>>> OS X version of iBooks but no sign of it yet. >>>> >>>> The developer site is closed right now while they are, no doubt, setting >>>> things up for the release, but I will grab a copy tomorrow. >>>> >>>> By the way, I was wondering how the cat taxonomy could top Lion. It seems >>>> they have done that nicely with Mountain Lion -- it is reminiscent of the >>>> Leopard / Snow Leopard release pairing. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Carlo >>>> >>>> On 16/02/2012, at 22:00 , Daniel Kerr wrote: >>>> >>>>> Just when you thought you were getting used to Lion,...Apple have >>>>> released the first Developer release of Mountain Lion! >>>>> And it's ready to gain more iOS features,...and more,.... >>>>> >>>>> Read more here:- >>>>> >>>>> <http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/16/apple-releases-first-developer-preview-of-os-x-mountain-lion-public-launch-in-late-summer/> >>>>> TinyURL - <http://tinyurl.com/6s3kz89> >>>>> >>>>> Enjoy >>>>> >>>>> Kind regards >>>>> Daniel >>>>> --- >>>>> Daniel Kerr >>>>> MacWizardry >>>>> >>>>> Phone: 0414 795 960 >>>>> Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> >>>>> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> **For everything Macintosh** >>>>> >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
